Quotes About Oversight

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

More and more it is evident that the State, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures.

Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

Victors do not investigate their own crimes, so that little is known about them...

You think you know what the Department of Defense is spending? The Department of Defense doesn't even know what the Department of Defense is spending.

Rather, in our distorted fee-for-service world, the work to coordinate and oversee care just isn't as profitable as other activities.

horsemen ignored both the right and the left flanks

the president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.

Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves.

mayor responsabilidad sobre los resultados.

Cartagena was to have the final say over all commercial aspects of the expedition;

One tier consisted of the steward, charged with keeping an eye on the food supply;

top of the pinnacle came the pilot, who plotted the ship's route; the master, who supervised the precious cargo;

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Nobody would ever miss an editor...

All that it took to destroy something, here, was to fail to keep track of it.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something.